parent/child and alerts

[Rossz Vamos-Wentworth]

I need to improve how alerts are handled.  This morning the internet 
connection on my nagios server went down.  This resulted in none of the 
remote tests working.  I had thought nagios automatically checked if the 
host was reachable if there was a test failure, but from alerts I'm 
receiving, this turns out to not be true (or I screwed up something in 
the configuration.

What must I do to receive only a single alert for each host when the 
internet connection is down instead of an alert for each service?  A 
bonus would be to supress all the alerts if the nagios server loses its 
connection.  I could configure one of the remote servers to test my 
primary nagios server's connection and send out an alert if it's 
unreachable.

--
Rossz



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